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  2. Witch trials in the early modern period - Wikipedia

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    An estimated 75% to 85% of those accused in the early modern witch trials were women, [10] [126] [127] [128] and there is certainly evidence of misogyny on the part of those persecuting witches, evident from quotes such as "[It is] not unreasonable that this scum of humanity, [witches], should be drawn chiefly from the feminine sex" (Nicholas ...

  3. Category:Early Modern witch hunts - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Early Modern witch hunts" ... Witch trials in the early modern period; B. The Burning Times; D.

  4. Feminist interpretations of witch trials in the early modern ...

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    This darker, more twisted, version of Diana was the early leader of witch craft in the Middle Ages, and was another projection of women during the time period. [6] When looking at the witch trials themselves, the accused were often female and made up a large chunk of the total witches from early witch trials. [7]

  5. Witch hunt - Wikipedia

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    The witch trials in Early Modern Europe came in waves and then subsided. There were trials in the 15th and early 16th centuries, but then the witch scare went into decline, before becoming a major issue again and peaking in the 17th century; particularly during the Thirty Years' War. What had previously been a belief that some people possessed ...

  6. Witchcraft in early modern Britain - Wikipedia

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    In Peter Elmer's novel Witchcraft, Witch-Hunting, and politics in early modern England [32] he argues and provides evidence for the fact that many of England's great witch trials occurred at times when political parties and governing bodies felt that their authority was being threatened. During the years of 1629 to 1637 no trials occurred in ...

  7. History of magic - Wikipedia

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    The trial of Joan of Arc in 1431 may be the most famous witch trial of the Middle Ages and can be seen as the beginning of the witch trials of the early modern era. A young woman who led France to victory during the Hundred Years' War , she was sold to the English and accused of heresy because she believed God had designated her to defend her ...

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  9. Witch trials in early modern Scotland - Wikipedia

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    The North Berwick Witches meet the Devil in the local kirkyard, from a contemporary pamphlet, Newes from Scotland. In early modern Scotland, in between the early 16th century and the mid-18th century, judicial proceedings concerned with the crimes of witchcraft (Scottish Gaelic: buidseachd) took place as part of a series of witch trials in Early Modern Europe.